Cap'n Crunch Cereal, Original Crunch, 14 Oz

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Peanut butter lovers, we’ve got the crunch for you! Cap’n Crunch’s Peanut Butter Crunch ® is loaded with rich and creamy peanut butter flavor and your favorite unmistakable crunch. This also means that the Cap’n himself – Horatio Magellan Crunch, who has led quite the adventurous life , is celebrating his 60th birthday. The beloved, mustached mascot has spent the better part of the last century not only sailing the Milky Seas around Crunch Island with his nautical crew Alfie, Dave, Carlye, and Seadog, but providing moments and thrills for generations of families throughout the world. So, with sixty adventure-filled years of experience, what’s left for Cap’n to do? These ingredients are sugar (more specifically, cane sugar), palm oil, and artificial colors (yellow 5 & 6). The reason they’re considered questionable is that they may be associated with animal cruelty. Sugar BuzzFeed Bring Me Obsessed with travel? Discover unique things to do, places to eat, and sights to see in the best destinations around the world with Bring Me! BuzzFeed Tasty Search, watch, and cook every single Tasty recipe and video ever - all in one place!

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Although there isn’t a single animal ingredient, which allegedly makes Captain Crunch a vegan product, there are three ingredients that are deemed questionable by more stringent vegans. As such, it really comes down to you as an individual and what you deem as acceptable. Related Questions Is Captain Crunch Gluten-Free? Captain Crunch (or Cap’n Crunch) is a corn and oat breakfast cereal manufactured by Quaker Oats Company, a subsidiary of PepsiCo since 2001.Its color is usually removed from cane sugar streams using carbon, or special resins. Oftentimes, a high degree of color removal is required, and one of the traditional methods to achieve that result is to use bone char. Bone char is a granular material prepared by grinding cattle bones and roasting them in a kiln. This cereal is sweet, but that's about the only flavor you have going on here. There's nothing interesting about it apart from the color. But the worst part? There's not actually any crunch involved at all. This cereal isn't particularly crunchy — rather, it gets soggy and soft right after you pour milk on top of it (not exactly the ideal situation when it comes to a good bowl of cereal).

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Captain Crunch (all of the varieties available) does not contain any animal ingredients, however, it contains ingredients that may be associated with animal cruelty. (i.e: sugar, palm oil, and artificial colors) GTFO. I looked up his picture to be sure it was who I had in mind. My great-grandma watched it with me often. I looked up him and PCH, and it says he wasn't on it. Mind blown." According to the Vegan Society, palm oil is a vegetable product that does not involve the (ab)use of animals and therefore is suitable for vegans. Naturally, while these are suitable alternatives, they don’t have a taste similar to Captain Crunch. Summary The bone char is loaded into large vertical cylinders called cisterns, and the clarified syrup is passed downwards through one, and sometimes two of these cisterns until the bone char is exhausted. The char is then washed clear of sugar and emptied from the cistern and sent to a drier and a kiln, where it’s regenerated by getting heated for a few minutes, as well as exposed to a limited quantity of air. The char is then returned to the cistern for the process to be repeated.

Captain Crunch: Ingredients

These are ingredients that some (usually deemed stricter) vegans avoid. For instance, the Vegan Society considers sugar and palm oil to be vegan ingredients, despite the environmental and other ethical implications, but some vegans still choose to avoid them.